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They come off a bit biased towards the design fetish, and how the engineer had to deal with the knowingly uncompromising dream designer.

  Scott’s mission was to reinvent the look, feel, and even
   personality of a computer, without limits. He worked to 
  capture an idea and a feeling without worrying initially 
  about the execution of that idea.



  The Engineering Challenge: Realize the Design

  For George, he sees his role as one to challenge 
  assumptions and do his utmost to realize Scott’s design.


  “My role as the Engineer is to take what the Industrial 
  Designer says is the Bible and try and put that into 
  production, more than coming back with “we have to change 
  this and that,” George says. “Because wherever possible, 
  we don’t want to compromise on our vision. We’ve made 
  every step necessary to manifest the industrial design 
  and try to reflect the creativity and personality of the 
  product.”

Design is great, but this just reminds me of design by Homer [1]

[1] http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/the-homer-in...

Wow this seems expensive and bulky compared to a headset with a hi resolution screen a few inches away from the eyes.

Yes, here is a graph detailing that phenomenon [1]

[1] http://i.imgur.com/4TK2Hu4.gif

I really recommend anyone who drinks black coffee try brewing their own loose leaf tea - greens, blacks, oolong, yerba matte. Start with distilled water and add honey to taste, maybe even hemp milk (very creamy, nutty flavor, and omegas!)

Matcha is great and quick also!

The Third Los Angeles is really about how the internet has allowed awareness of otherwise buried treasures of LA to be lost in the noise. The greater Los Angeles area is becoming somewhat what it was intended to be, with the hundreds of surrounding cities converging upon LA as a magnet. Whenever I've attended interesting events in LA, it's never just people from LA proper it's people who've hopped in a car and drove 40 miles to converge with a bunch of other people who've done the same.

This article seems to spin green development, but it's mostly just normal development and the rapid gentrification and rezoning of the old industrial & wholesale districts.

San Fransisco has a more more diverse set of options for nightlife and culture compared to downtown Santa Monica.

If you bicycle around Santa Monica/Venice there's not much going on compared to SF. Sure you could hop in your car and drive to Hollywood, DTLA, or other parts of the city but that's not really the same as the work/live urban core ideal.

We are immersed in the various mediums present in our daily life and being aware of the medium itself and what limitations or potentialities are available from that medium will demystify these otherwise mundane ubiquitous things we encounter everywhere.

In the context of "The Medium is the Massage", I brought up (industrial) design because physical products are a major part of our daily lives and I never really gave much thought as to how a tooth brush or a Macbook was developed and built. Yeah Objectified had a fair amount of self-glorification of the designer egos, but before I saw the film I had no real concept of who was behind all the stuff that I use in my daily life.

The attraction of suburban life vs dense urban downtown would be mostly the same if public transit routes were just as available. (Although I would imagine the availability of easier transportation would certainly increase restaurant & entertainment offerings from outside commuters who don't normally have car access)

Some people prefer their peaceful cookie cut house and desire nothing much to do with the big cities. More often then not it's zoning, job availability, and affordability.

Something that really opened my eyes to thinking about the design of everyday things was "Objectified" (2009), a documentary on industrial/product design.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9E2D2PaIcI

It's detuned. This is a feature in some polyphonic synthesizers.

KiiKeyboard had an option to scale down the size of the keyboard, but has since been removed from the play store due to licensing issues related to "emoji plugin" packs downloaded separately

Reaction after FB acquired whatsapp of the userbase jumping ship to telegram and other similar apps.

Reaction from userbase of Oculus Rift after FB acquired the company.

How would the income system work? (..cryptocoins?)

What goods/services can people buy with your "income stream" system?

An architect once told me that low ceilings are desirable in certain parts of homes because they give a very comforting, secure presence.

High ceilings do feel better for group and work spaces, room to breath.

[0] an actual anecdote that happened to me.